For the first time, scientists have created a comprehensive evolutionary tree of all known bird species, synthesizing data from nearly 300 studies published between 1990 and 2024. This ...

Guided by their teachers, nearly 30,000 Danish schoolchildren, ages 7 to 16, helped scientists from the Natural History ...

A huge map comparing the DNA of 240 mammal species that could revolutionise medicine has been unveiled by scientists (Picture: Unsplash) Areas that changed more frequently shaped an animal’s ...

Scientists named a staggering 190 new species in 2024. The list, which comes from London’s Natural History Museum (NHM) and elsewhere, includes a vegetarian piranha and a rat endemic to a single ...

More than 100 possible new marine species discovered in a single deepsea expedition. ... We'll send you a weekly roundup of the best CBC Radio programming every Friday. Email address: ...

Take the giraffe. In 1758, the Swedish taxonomist Carl Linnaeus described a single species of giraffe: Giraffa camelopardalis. Although the species has declined in recent decades, 117,000 giraffes ...

Researchers create first-ever map of a single animal’s early visual system Scientists have mapped out the entire early visual system — from eyes to neurons — for a tiny parasitic wasp, the ...

Geologists have discovered 10 new species of trilobite in a relatively unstudied area of Thailand. These extinct sea creatures were hidden for 490 million years and are helping scientists create a ...

When a global pandemic forced previous a graduate student out of the lab and onto the computer, he found a world of difference hidden in the long-studied species of Botryoccocus braunii -- and ...

In every single box core sample, we would see new species.” She spotted sponges that looked like plain old bath sponges and others that resembled delicate vases. “One of my favorites [are] the glass ...